Package rack for group mail boxes



Dec. 31, 1929. J. GAFNEY PACKAGE RACK FOR GROUP MAIL BOXES Filed Jan. 12, 1929 Patented Dec. 31, 1929 UNITED STATES JAMES GAIFNEY, on NEW YORK, N. Yw

PACKAGE RACK FOR GROUP MAIL BOXES Application filed January 12, 1929. Serial No. 332,066.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in racks, especially adapted for use in the reception of newspapers, magazines and small packages, the rack being especially suitable for use at a point directly adjacent a group of mail boxes in an office building or apartment house, so that larger articles that cannot be deposited in the individual boxes can be disposed within the rack, so that they will be readily available to the tenants.

An important object of this invention is to provide a rack of this character. that is extremely simple in construction, as well as inexpensive of manufacture, and of such a nature as to permit of its ready attachment to the wall of a building.

With the foregoing and other objects in view as the nature of the invention will be better understood after a review of the following specification, together with the accompanying drawing, wherein:

. Figure 1 is a perspective of my improved rack as associated with a building wall directly above a group of individual mail boxes.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary front elevation of the rack at one end thereof.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary section through the building wall, upon which is secured by rack which is shown in end elevation, and

Figure 4 is a fragmentary longitudinal section through the rack, looking downwardly upon the bottom wall thereof.

Now having particular reference to the drawing, my novel rack consists of a plurality of longitudinally extending spaced parallel frame bars 5 of steel wire, or other suitable material, joined at their ends and at desired points intermediate the ends by vertical bars 6. a The upper and lower longitudinal bars 5 are of greater length than the intermediate ones, and the ends of these upper and lower bars are bent inwardly at right angles to provide short end bars 7. The lower ends of the intermediate connecting bars 6 are also bent inwardly at right angles to provide short supporting bars 8. Arranged upon the lower end bars 7 and said intermediate bars 8 is a strip ofsheet metal 9 that provides a bottom wall for the rack, the side and end edges thereof being bent downwardly outwardly of the supporting bars, the flanges provided thereby being suitably cut for the reception of the joints between the longitudinal and vertical ars.

The extreme inner ends of said end bars 7 of the upper and lower bars 5 are provided with right angularly bent eyes 10, in order that the rack may be rigidly secured to the wall surface by screws, nails or other fasteners as more clearly disclosed in Figure 3.

In view of the foregoing description when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, it will be apparent that I have provided a novel, simple, useful and eflicient rack for the reception of newspapers, magazines, and the like, and that is especially serviceable for use at a point directly adjacent a group of individual mail boxes within a building.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a rack of the character described, a front wall consisting of a plurality of spaced parallel bars and a plurality of vertical interconnecting bars, inwardly directed end members associated with the ends of certain of said bars and constructed at their inner ends to facilitate the attachment of the rack to a supporting surface, and a bottom wall arranged upon the inwardly directed end members of the lowermost bar having a downturned marginal flange on its front and end, said wall and flange being provided with lontudinally spaced recesses for the reception of the vertical bars.

2. In a rack of the character described, a front wall including a plurality of spaced parallel horizontal bars, the uppermost and lowermost of said bars of greater length than the intermediate ones and having inwardly turned end portions terminating in angularly bent eyes for attachment to a support, a plurality of longitudinally spaced vertical connecting rods coupled to the horizontal rods, the outermost of said vertical rods having their ends coupled to the upper and lower horizontal rods, the inner vertical connecting rods of greater length than the outer ones and connected, at their upper ends to the upper ion horizontal rods and having their lower end portions turned inwardly and terminating in angularly disposed eyes for connection with a support, and a bottom plate having a downturned marginal flange mounted on the lower 5 horizontal bar, and the inturned end portion of the yertical bars, said flanged plate being provided with longitudinallyspaced recesses or the reception of the vertical bars.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JALIES GAFNEY, 

